Burton Street Community Peace Gardens is a labor of love project started by Safi Mahaba and DeWayne Barton in 2003 as a mindful response to the war that was happening in Iraq and on drugs in our country and neighborhoods.

What was an overgrown abandoned lot filled with trash is now a community gathering place with vegetable, flower, and sculpture gardens, a stage and pavilion, fire pit, cob pizza oven and more. A true gem in the Burton Street Community and Asheville as a whole.